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Definition of Seizing

1. Noun. Small stuff that is used for lashing two or more ropes together.

2. Noun. The act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles).

Definition of Seizing

1. n. The act of taking or grasping suddenly.

Definition of Seizing

1. Noun. a type of lashing or binding used to temporarily immobilize the ends of a rope to prevent a knot from slipping or collapsing. ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of seize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seizing

1. the act of one that seizes [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seizing

seize on seize out seize the day seize up seize upon seize with teeth seized seized up seized upon seizer

seizers seizes seizes up seizes upon seizin seizing (current term) seizing up seizing upon seizings seizins

seizor seizors seizure seizure-alert dog seizureless seizurelike seizures sejant sejeant sejoin

Literary usage of Seizing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"3) represents the cat seizing a bird. This would involve going into the Fio. 8.—AN EGYPTIAN FOWLING SCINE. 1. Sportsman using the throw-stick. 2. ..."

2. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1853)
"COMMISSIONERS FOR seizing PERSONAL ESTATES, 1777. Philad. County, Novem' the 18th, 1777. Sir, As we, the subscribers, together with James Stroud and Daniel ..."

3. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1868)
"It seemed evident that, for the English, all rational import- hope must depend upon seizing the occasion which seizing the ^g enemy's halt was now ..."

4. Annals of Cambridge by Charles Henry Cooper, John William Cooper (1845)
"WHEREAS Authority was formerly given, by Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament, to Colonel Oliver Cromwell and others, for the seizing of the Persons, ..."

5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"On 25 Sept. he astonished his colleagues by informing them of his intention of seizing St. Helena, ' to possesso the same, and theire to be proclaimed kyng. ..."

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